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Russian opponent Alexei Navalny, 44, was brought out of his induced coma, the hospital where he is being held in Berlin said on Monday, according to Reuters.
The anti-corruption activist is being eliminated by mechanical ventilation and reacts when he talks to him.
“It is still too early to assess the long-term effects of his severe poisoning,” the Charité hospital, one of the most prestigious in Europe, said in a brief statement.
Who is Alexei Navalny?
On August 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s main opponent felt ill and lost consciousness on the plane heading to Moscow, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in the Siberian city of Omsk. . . His assistants and relatives believed from the beginning that he had been the victim of “intentional poisoning” for his political activity while having tea at the airport.
Doctors at the hospital where he was admitted in Siberia said they found no traces of poisoning. After being transferred to the German hospital, toxicological tests carried out on Navalny’s blood samples indicated, without the possibility of misunderstanding, that he had been poisoned with a novichok-type substance.
Novichok (“rookie” in Russian) is a group of neurotoxic substances developed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s. It was used against a former Russian spy and his daughter in England in 2018. The two survived. Russia has denied being behind this incident.
- NEUROTOXIC SUBSTANCE: What is novichok?
